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- Subject: Re: Windows and Oracle access.
- From: tumidity@netlink.cts.com (Joel Garry)
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 17:02:43 PST
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- kmajkut@netcom.com (Keith Majkut) writes:
- > >
- > >I just saw a demo of Reportwriter 2.0. It was really cool. I think they
- > >said it should be out by May. The neat thing is, you can use the
- > >executables on any machine. Apparantly they use some sort of virtual
- > >machine. I can't imagine that it would be the most efficient on all
- > >machines, but that's portability for you. It's like a combination of
- > >.inp and .frm files.
- >
- > I'm not sure if you meant to say 'executable' above. I can say for sure that
- > none of the Oracle executables is designed in that fashion. What you meant to
- > say was that the files produced by SRW are portable across platforms. You
- > can simply transfer a file between UNIX/PC/MAC and it will load/run without
- > any modification. Also, you could save it to the RDBMS and retrieve it from
- > another version of SRW on another platform(I have done both of these myself
- > so I know it works).
- > SRW will have 3 file formats(.rdf-binary format w/source, .rex-ascii format
- > w/source and .rep-binary format w/runtime only).
-
- Sorry! I was foaming at the mouth excited about it, and got sloppy! Do
- you run it as a virtual machine in the executable, or are you guys
- actually rewriting the executable for every machine?
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